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Publication Date: 2022-Jun
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Missing and Mis-in Concept Images of Parallelograms: The Case of Tal
Tirosh, Dina; Tsamir, Pessia
International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, v20 n5 p981-997 Jun 2022
In this article, we describe a case study that was conducted within a study aiming to diagnose grade 5 students' concept images of parallelograms. The theoretical framework that we adopted for this study was that of concept definition--concept image as reported by Tall and Vinner ("Educational Studies in Mathematics" 12:151-169, 1981), a theory that is widely used in mathematics education. The occurrences during our interviews with one of the first students that we interviewed led us to identify a need to extend this theory. This manuscript suggests to add two new constructs to the theory of concept definition--concept image: "missing concept images" and "mis-in concept images." "Missing concept image" defines a situation in which an example of a concept is erroneously categorized as a non-example of the concept. "Mis-in concept image" is the somewhat complementary case, in which a non-example of the concept is "mis(takenly) in(cluded) in" the set of examples of the concept and consequently this non-example is erroneously identified as an example of the concept. In this manuscript, we introduce these two constructs. We also describe two possible sources of students' decisions regarding their ways of sorting figures into examples and non-examples of parallelograms that were detected during the interviews. To the best of our knowledge, these sources were not reported in the related literature.
Descriptors: Grade 5, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts, Definitions, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Misconceptions
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Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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